Cream-separator.



No. 647,877 Patented Ap r. I7, I900. s. m. REDFIELD.

CREAM SEPARATOB.

h (Application filed Jun. 9. 1900.. (No Model.)

UNITED STAT PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN M. REDFIELD, on MARYVILLE, trussonnif IICREAM-ISGEPARATORQ SPEGIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 647,877, dated April 1'7, 1900.

Application filed an ary $1900.? Serial No. 90']- (No modem IbaZZ whom it may concern: i

Be it known that I, STEPHEN M. REDFIELD,

. a citizen of the United States, residing in ,Maryville, Nodaway county, Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in 1 Cream Separators, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the at-- tached and accompanying drawings, forming part hereof.

ing in bottom of milk-cari-when constructed as shown.

A shows an ordinary milk-can, constructedof tin or other material, for containing the milk from which cream is to be separated.

B is a faucet attached at a point on the side of milk-can and near the bottom, as shown by dotted line E- E, to draw contents of separa,

tor, which dotted line represents the position of the inside bottom when placed in permanent position.

more or less, with funnel shaped top, as shown, attached at its lower end on the outside of milk-can to a tube G one-half inch square, more or less, formed by a peculiar construction and formation of the inside bottom, as explained in Figs. 2, i5, and 4, through which tubes cold water may be conducted into the bottom of the separator containing milk from which the cream is to be separated, as explained.

The inside bottom oi the separator is constructed in two sections, as shownat E E, Fig. -2, and so united by solder as to form a hollow or tube G one-half of an inchsquare, more or less, extendingthrough the sloping bottom -E E, Fig. 1, and as shown, th'usz The upper section of inside bottom of separator is a continuous bottom extending from upper edge ofbottom slope to where it is united by a downward right-angle turn or folding to the lower 0 represents a tube one-half inch in size,

lower edge of sloping. bottom-to where it is ing to the under side of -upper section, so as to form a square tube G onehalfof an inch square, more or less, through and being a part of the inside bottom of cream-separator,construeted so as to receive the lower end-oftube C, Fig. 1, secured thereto bysolder or other convenient device, the lower and down folding part of upper section to be perforated; as shown,jso that'eold water supplied through funnel and. tube ,0, Fig. 1, will be conducted to tube G and pass through said perforated part downward into bottom of' separator and into bottom of milk contained therein, the size of tube and perforation, as shown, to be of such dimension as will be self-regulating of the speed with which water shall be ad to contents of separator, thus acting automatically, the cold water having its momentum directed downward and toward the lowest point in the separator rather than upward, or

parts, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, Fig. 3 representing tube G, detached from Fig. e tfor convenience in cleansing, which may be replaced at will in otfset in bottom, as shown in Fig. 4, and when so'replaced giving the same appearance' as shown in Fig. 2 and operative in identically the same manner as described.

What I claim as new isr A cream-separator consisting of the body A, having an inclined and stepped bottom E, a transverse chamber Gbeneath the step, said chamber being. provided with perforations opening through the side thereof into the body, and a tube 0 having its lower end communicating with the interior of the chamber, substantially as described.

IRA K. ALDERMAN, C. P: DENNY.

section, which extends continuously from united by an upward right-angle turn or fold-' mitted with least commotion and disturbance inside bottom may be constructed in separate- 

